A HORRIFIED mum claims she has been left scarred for life after serving up a 'maggot-infested' roast chicken to her kids for lunch.

Stay-at-home mum Ayla Waugh bought the $8 chicken from her local Coles supermarket in her hometown of Tenterfield, northern NSW, last month and put it straight in her fridge to enjoy for lunch the next day.

But the mum-of-three claims after she reheated the chicken and served it up for herself and her children the following day they spotted the 'disgusting' live maggots wriggling on the flesh of the chicken - while they were eating it.

Ayla Waugh had reheated a chicken she had bought the previous day — but the maggots were still alive when the family sat down to lunch. Picture: Caters News.

Shocked Ayla has now shared a video of the chicken she said was taken immediately after she spotted the maggots, with the small white worms visible crawling through the meat.

Ayla, 37, said: "We bought the roast chicken on a Friday afternoon and when I got home went straight into the fridge so that we could eat it for Saturday lunch.